I agree with Micha, the mini looks awesome, I absolutely love the look of extreme highlighting, so eye-catching. But the banner doesn't work. Too distracting, and yes, very hard to make out whats on it, the back of it however, looks good. Just a tip aslo would be to cut the edges of your banner with a craft knife to get square corners, would look a lot better, and also I think the banner pole could use something on top, but thats just personal opinion. Change the banner and you would have an 8, maybe a 9 from me. Good work though.
very nice mini with reall vivid highlights, but the banner, while well-sculptured, doesn´t look good. the sqares break up the motive and make it difficult to recognize - I think making a differently-colored border strip on banners makes the motif stand out even more.